Wireless Router with Parental Control

joroma · 14 Apr 2008 at 23:52

I need to manage how much time my son spends on his xbox online using my wireless connection. Is there a router that allows you to schedule wireless "ontime" or any other ways of doing it???

tem07 · 15 Apr 2008 at 10:42

What wireless router do you have?
on my draytek 2820n I have a schedule that can turn off the connection and a specified time/and turn on.

joroma · 15 Apr 2008 at 13:20

BT Voyager 2110 and it doesn't have that feature. I've spoken to their support and scheduling isn't available. Trouble with the Draytek is the price!!

nst68 · 15 Apr 2008 at 14:11

joroma said:
I need to manage how much time my son spends on his xbox online using my wireless connection. Is there a router that allows you to schedule wireless "ontime" or any other ways of doing it???

Are you on cable or ADSL?

If it's cable then the Linksys WRT54GL (Link) definately can do this, You can specify either by MAC or IP address.

I would imagine that most ADSL routers would have this facility as well.

If you want to reduce the amount of time he's spending online, then you also need to watch out for any unsecured networks that are around.
There's nothing to stop him connecting to one of these once he's been kicked off yours.

J.B · 15 Apr 2008 at 14:22

Pretty sure all Linksys routers offer this feature

Kipper67 · 15 Apr 2008 at 19:34

What about the parental controls on the xbox itself?

Fairly sure you should be able to set limits on the time allowed on Live in there somewhere which is probably a better way of doing it than trying to block ports on a router.

If not most netgear routers have some sort of scheduling so you could block access to live on a schedule probably.